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Once again with the hiring in Bham, radio looks to non-radio folk to fill jobs

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Word!

Once again, the radio industry looking to non-radio folks to fill positions at stations
So someone has to be a rapper, singer, comedian, author, or actor to become a radio star, but the radio star can't even get a chance in their MAJOR career interest because market 250 wants 2years experience and small to medium markets won't give chances.

oops, rant.
but truth.

Rickey Smiley - Comedian
Steve Harvey - Comedian
Russ Parr - Singer
Yo yo - Rapper
Michael Baisden - Author
Keith Sweat - Singer
Tony Sculfield - Comedian

to name a few



Real radio people
Tom Joyner
Doug Banks
 
Russ Parr is a real radio guy. He started at KDAY. I was his intern when he was at KJMZ in Dallas/Ft. Worth.
 
I wa sin B'Ham for Classic over the weekend and 95.7 JAMZ had the city on lock! Live mixshows throughout the day and night all weeekend. From what I heard it was a wider varietyof music compared to what I hear here in ATL. BTW, HOT 107.7 sounded like a snooooze fest all weekend!
 
Ok I'm corrected on RussParr, I i thought he was part of a group and never did radio. But overall, this been happening too much.

And Birmingham radio station announces popular national comedian Roy Wood Jr. to host mornings on WBHJ
 
ShawtyBlack_ATL said:
I wa sin B'Ham for Classic over the weekend and 95.7 JAMZ had the city on lock! Live mixshows throughout the day and night all weeekend. From what I heard it was a wider varietyof music compared to what I hear here in ATL. BTW, HOT 107.7 sounded like a snooooze fest all weekend!
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Doubt that one considering I once lived in Birmingham and know how lame 95.7 Jamz really is. I've heard better mixes on holiday weekends in Atlanta on V-103 versus the once in awhile variety that 95.7 Jamz will perpetuate. Hell, anything JC or Baby Yu's half-hour mixes on V-103 on any given weekday has killed anything I've heard mixed on 95.7 in Birmingham. Also remember 107.7 is an UAC not an Urban Contemporary or Mainstream Urban, so 95.7 was the only one in Birmingham would have spun those songs.
 
Word! said:
Ok I'm corrected on RussParr, I i thought he was part of a group and never did radio. But overall, this been happening too much.

And Birmingham radio station announces popular national comedian Roy Wood Jr. to host mornings on WBHJ
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Except that both Roy Wood Jr. AND Rickey Smiley have previous radio experience. Rickey Smiley was a regular contributor to the first iteration of Sammy Mack's 'Buck Wilde' show on 95.7 ('Buck Wilde & Afrika', ft. a female sidekick) and the show that replaced it, 'The Hometeam' featuring Tammi Mac (formerly of KJLH, now acting fulltime) and fellow Alabama-bred comedian Ced Delaney. And seeing as how Smiley has hosted his own branded show since 2004, you're pathetically late in complaining about a lack of experience.

Wood, Jr. got most of his on-air chops contributing to the same Home Team show (in its latter years) and the subsequent return of Buck Wilde, all while still touring just as he's doing now. So no, this hustle ain't new to him either.

The notion that either man was just plucked out of nowhere to host radio shows is false. 'Real radio people' my foot.
 
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